PnP was near SB-esque, with wired-tight lemon juice, chalk, lychee, white melon, and quince notes. Decanted for over three hours and this monkey started to move ever so slightly into the realm of…
Green apple, lychee, honeydew, pear, chalk and some limestone. No hard edges, but nice subtle tension keeping it from becoming too round. Finishes with white melon rind, wet travertine, and faint…
A Chardonnay with exquisite balance and poise, while also pushing out party-ready flavors of Meyer lemon juice, yellow pear, green apple, and hints of tropical fruit. Just as pure and alluring as it…
Very agreeable Bougros, with a sway toward the riper end of the yellow fruit spectrum, but also with enough acidity to keep it all in line. Ripe lemon and white melon dominate. Some pumice and slight…
A decent yeasty style on the front-end attack, with bread dough, white melon, pie crust, and lemon seed. Skirts the mid-palate a little high and linear, finishing nearly opposite of how it started,…
A much more complete animal than the barrel sample I had back in November. Initially, the first sips were certainly youthfully linear and hyper-focused. A massive cut and acid blast that was…
This poor little gawky ogre is still in a bit of a tug-of-war mode with its vanilla-glycol-alcohol versus grilled pineapple-lemon flavors all competing for center stage in Thunderdome. More of a…
Almost a year since my last note, with the Eastside coming along quite nicely. More fruit and unctuous flavor expansion this go-around. However, some if the typical Aubert glycol peeking through and…
Same as before. I know others think time in bottle will help this wine, and I hope they are correct. For me, I'm not confident time in bottle will help. It stands to smooth out a bit and shake off…
A noteworthy "restaurant" Chardonnay at La Bicyclette in Carmel. Carries an agreeable smoothness that houses the ripe fruit in a smooth but firm scaffolding. A balanced non-astringent acid frame…
Currently angular and slightly abrasive, this iteration of UV-SL offers yellow citrus and alcohol, with some imitation vanilla extract and popcorn notes. Missing texture and seamlessness. A tad empty…
Plump, plush, round, sweet, ripe, ripe, ripe lemon curd, lemon tart, custard, buttered popcorn, and yellow cupcake batter with vanilla frosting. An obese amount of oak influence made for a super…
Yellow citrus, popcorn, vanilla glycol, meringue, marshmallow, and custard. Heavy on the oak influence, with ripe and round yellow citrus enveloped by the sweet vanilla flavors. Little sophistication…
Similar to all of my other notes. Needed an hour or so to start delivering a less manipulated and confectioned advancement of flavors. Lemon meringue and curd, vanilla, and mojito dominated the…
Certainly showing even more of its BdB yellow citrus profile than a year ago, this bottle displayed upper register lemon zest, lemon oil, yellow pear, white quartz, chalk, and acacia. Refreshing…
A definite contrast from the Magnum I had of this a year ago. This bottle was (as others have noted) somewhat muted in the fruit department. In fact, the fruit seemed somewhat progressed and…
This bottle seemed to have an angular delivery and showed a more progressed profile in terms of a bronzed/oxidized finish that was omnipresent. It was drinkable, but the lamp oil aftertaste and added…
Eeeeeesh.... This was unfortunately a little tough for me to get on board with in its current state; not the most inviting or expressive... or complex example of the varietal or the site. I'm not…
Fresh squeezed lemon juice, yellow pear skin, vanilla, and some glycol-alcohol on the finish. More powerful and a bit more abrasive than the Frei Chardonnay at this stage. Good flavors, but rattles…
About an hour of direct air allowed this wine to shake off some of the heavier coconut pie crust and vanilla flavors from its coat, allowing the lemon curd and pear notes to take center stage. Some…
So this silly chameleon has gone 180 with its flavor profile since I last had it in 2017. What was once a balled-up mineral-first-fruit-second Chardonnay has now become a vanilla tropical Carmen…
Continuing on its path to increasingly elevated performance, this bottling of the Hartford Far Coast has inched-up a couple of notches since I had it last summer. The focus and flavor are really…
